Prior to the global financial crisis the LeftPress collective wrote a pamphlet about the 1998 MUA dispute on Australian ports. Given recent events where global port operator, Hutchison, has sacked half its workforce in Brisbane and Sydney it seems timely to re-visit this dispute.… Go to Article
Month: August 2015
South Sudan, African exploitation and disaster capitalism
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ANTONY LOEWENSTEIN
NEWSLETTER
THURSDAY 6, AUGUST 2015
BENTIU, PALESTINE AND MINING CORPORATIONS
Dear all,
Our media is saturated with war. Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen are constantly before our eyes and yet how often are we getting accurate, on the ground reporting?
Grand Shift in Global Economic and Political Power Structures
Sharmine Narwani, Commentator and analyst of Middle East geopolitics, wrote in Iran nuclear deal: Why Empire blinked first (published on 5 August 2015 at RT):
… Go to ArticleIn 2012, cracks in the global economic and political power structures started to shift dramatically.
The Zine
Workers ‘sit in’ at Hutchison
At the Hutchison port terminals in Brisbane and in Sydney, Australia, workers on shift are “sitting in”, and other workers are joining community assemblies at the terminal gates.… Go to Article
100 workers sacked by text message
Forty-one workers at Hutchison Ports Australia’s Brisbane operations at Fisherman Island were sacked by text message just before midnight, Thursday 6 August 2015.… Go to Article
Brisbane Bands – Radical Times
Radical Times Historical Archive at http://radicaltimes.info/ is now streaming a documentary called BRISBANE BANDS (46.5 minutes)
It is in position 15D in the (visual) Table of Contents under this thumbnail image…..… Go to Article
Continuing Avalanche of Events redefining the Balance of Power in the Middle East
We already reported at Avalanche of events redefining the balance of power in the Middle East that on 29 June 2015 Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mouallem together with his deputy Faisal Al-Makdad and Buthaina Shaaban, who is a counsel for the Syrian President, met with Vladimir Putin, who suggested the formation of a quadrilateral anti-terrorism coalition to be comprised of Syria, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Jordan.… Go to Article
Murder of Manufacturing
Lest we forget – workers in Australia can manufacture as well as workers in any other country.
As a recent article posted on Vanguard web site demonstrated (see The Murder of Manufacturing), policies of federal governments over the last 40 years have contributed to the decline of many manufacturing industries in Australia.… Go to Article
Last Week at the Royal Commission #turc #standwithjohn
[Publisher’s Note: More needs to be done about this. Thanks to The Word From Struggle Street for this update. Ian Curr, 4 Aug 2015]
The Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption continued last week in Canberra.
Manus Island: Rejected asylum seekers told they will be deported; stateless face possible transfer to ‘correctional institutions’
VERY worrying – men unable to be deported could be placed in life threatening PNG prisons and subject to beatings and other “encouragements” to leave.… Go to Article